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thanks for taking the time to look into my question (my first one).
I'm loving that Steam now has 700+ games on linux, and downloaded Ubuntu 14.04 and am now really trying to switch to this as much ...

I am new to Linux and using Terminal. If I open an application within terminal, I noticed that it renders my terminal session to be unusable and I can't enter any more commands.The Terminal session is ...

I have played with Powergrep and regular expressions but I don't know how to do that:
I have the text file (source code of webpage) and I want to delete all text (a lot of lines) before the specific ...

laptop doesn't goes into sleep into as it is pretty irritating to make it shutdown and power-on situation for let the PC be on power saving mode for sometime can anybody help.
samsung-NP300E5X-S02IN
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If I can, I will avoid using the GUI to get around my system, and recently what I have found very annoying is that I seem unable to view the contents and open the contents of a compressed file without ...

Need help to understand the output of ls -l command. I created one file testa in my home directory. When I run the ls -l command it shows up with two similar names. What does the symbol (~) mean with ...

I've been struggling to make this work but I am not very good with regex. This is what I tried to do and it didn't work (after 50 minutes, still going on with no visible change):
while IFS= read -r ...

I find it rather hard to travel through my system using nautilus and much prefer using the cd etc commands in Terminal to get around my system, but I find that sometimes I do need to look at a list of ...

so... got to Linux Ubuntu 14.10 last Friday (the first time ever using Linux) und now having a very dumb question, I'm afraid of.
So... That was a Minimal-Installation which called himself "Standard ...

I am able to connect to both wired and wireless networks and able to browse via a browser. So I don't think there's any network issue.
However I cannot run any internet based command from my terminal
...

I usually create a bootable live image of a CD on USB devices with this command:
sudo dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdx
The problem is that after using this command, I cannot copy additional files on the ...

I have installed dh-make by installing other packages as recommended by this page which depend on it (I am listing all packages which could have installed it as well because I am not certain which one ...

Usually on the command line you could write Ctrl+L and this would clean the command line, but now it doesn't. The command does nothing at all. How can I restore it to the way it was?
I'm using Ubuntu ...

i have a machine where a user deleted their postgresql folder from the command line in an attempt to uninstall postgres.
when they go into the Ubuntu Software Center, they are continuously prompted ...

After I boot my Ubuntu 14.04, it shows desktop successfully. Then I browse internet and open terminal, all work fine. But suddenly, when I try to scroll up or down the browser the desktop blinks and ...

Say you have a file named test.txt with the following lines:
ಕದಂ.ಬ
कदम्ब.
Then, suppose you want to replace each dot following a devanagarI unicode character (ie in कदम्ब) with a ।. Then, you might ...